Flinger disc

• US 20080026175A1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trico Holdings Limited (Crowne Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Trico MFG. Corp.
• Inventors: Bloch, Heinz, Malinowski, Jeffrey, Freeland, Daniel, Thomas, Rojean
• Granted Patent: US 7,862,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/66.6
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/103 retained in or near the bearing
• CPC Class Codes: F16N 7/22 shaped as rings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/218 Aperture containing

Abstract

To achieve proper lubrication, a bearing housing or reservoir is filled with a predetermined amount of lubricant. When the machine, of which a bearing is a component, is operated, a flexible flinger disc provides proper lubrication by disturbance of the lubricant.

Claims

1. A disk for insertion into an enclosed space;

said disk comprising;

a non-metallic body having an outer diameter and a first cross-sectional area;

a hole through an interior region of said body;

said disk of a flexibility to bend to a second cross-sectional area less than said first cross-sectional area;

said disk tapering from a first thickness at a center region of said disk to a second thickness at a peripheral region of said disk, said first thickness greater than said second thickness; and

said disk having a plurality of cross sectional variations spaced apart at differing radial distances from said hole.

2. A disk according to claim 1, wherein said cross sectional variations comprise ridges.

3. A disk according to claim 1, wherein said cross sectional variations comprise grooves.